The school is located off Eccles Old Road, between Buile Hill Park and Pendleton Sixth Form College.

[citation needed] The acting headteacher of the grammar school at the time of its closure, Robert Blackmore, became Buile Hill's first head, and remained in the position until 1982.

[5] In 1976, two boys aged 15 and 16 set fires in the school, causing damages costing £30,000 (equivalent to £228,371 in 2023)[6] and destroying rare books in the library.

Buile Hill held a Valentine's day ball featuring Coronation Street actors, and considered selling a painting by L.S.

[22] Buile Hill Visual Arts College was previously a community school administered by Salford City Council.

[33] In March 2014, Edward Beetham, a former head of year and humanities teacher at the school, pleaded guilty to indecency with an 11-year-old pupil in the early 1990s.

"[42] When sentencing, Judge Patrick Field QC, told Beetham: "You developed and encouraged a relationship with (the victim) – this appears to me, at least in part, grooming behaviour, enabling you to lure him into your bedroom where you invited an undoubtedly bewildered child to beat you for your own sexual gratification."